My ?ntonia

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U of Nebraska Press, 2003 M01 1 - 543 pages
Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, My ?ntonia secured Willa Cather?s place in the first rank of American writers. Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for her fourth novel, publishedøin 1918. ?ntonia Shimerda is memorable as the warm-hearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit.

This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of My ?ntonia is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and it presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information on the novel. The selection of W. T. Benda?s illustrations and the historical photography and maps also illuminate the fiction of a writer who drew so extensively on actual experience.

 

Contents

II
3
III
8
IV
18
V
27
VI
31
VII
36
VIII
41
IX
48
XXXI
202
XXXII
207
XXXIII
219
XXXIV
224
XXXV
238
XXXVI
249
XXXVII
255
XXXVIII
263

X
60
XI
68
XII
77
XIII
81
XIV
85
XV
90
XVI
100
XVII
110
XVIII
115
XIX
122
XX
131
XXI
139
XXII
143
XXIII
150
XXIV
154
XXV
164
XXVI
167
XXVII
175
XXVIII
187
XXIX
191
XXX
198
XXXIX
270
XL
289
XLI
295
XLII
298
XLIII
310
XLIV
317
XLV
343
XLVI
356
XLVII
363
XLVIII
367
XLIX
369
L
403
LI
431
LII
479
LIII
481
LIV
523
LV
527
LVI
529
LVII
533
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Kari A. Ronning is assistant editor of the Cather Scholarly Edition. Charles Mignon is professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska. James Woodress is the author of Willa Cather: A Literary Life and the editor of Willa Cather?s The Troll Garden, both available from the University of Nebraska Press.

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